To the first point - Hmm, I dunno, having two tournaments in close succession sort of makes it less special. I'll talk to Huz about it. I do think that the weekend is the best time.. But hmm..

To the second point - Hmm, that's a good idea. I have no idea how that would work, though. That is totally Huz' field of expertise.
I don't know how useful it'd really be, though. The key thing about organised tournaments is that we can get everyone together at the same place at the same time. We do play something every day or so, but it's usually a spur-of-the-moment type thing with three or four of us.
Someone (usually Huz) will say "NE14 WWP/HLDM/UT2k4 or wot!!" and we all go "OKAY" and all pile in onto the server and play for an hour or so.
Unless you kept refreshing the MIGC page very regularly, you wouldn't really know when we were playing as it'd display "0 players" for 23 hours of the day, and then all of a sudden say "lots of players!".